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On corruption

This refers to the article “Corruption — silence of the many” (Open Page, May 4). Corruption is one of the major factors that has kept India poor and made the life of the common man miserable.

We should work on a three-point plan to check corruption — simplification of rules and procedures, empowerment of people and, above all, effective punishment for the guilty. Corruption flourishes because it is a low-risk, high-profit activity. Both the giver and the taker are responsible for it. A collective effort by the government and the people is needed to eliminate the menace.

Kalpana Shukla,

Lucknow

Our electoral reforms, administrative reforms, and stringent corruption laws are sleeping in the archives. In the East Asian countries, students take to the streets to protest against corrupt leaders. But ours is a passive society. Intellectuals should mould public opinion against corruption and demand necessary reforms and laws to end it.

V.S. Sankaran,

Madurai

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